清脆的
生物
噬菌体
计算生物学
噬菌体展示
基因
遗传学
基因组
噬菌体
大肠杆菌
抗体
作者
Ning Duan,Emily Hand,Mannuku Pheko,Shikha Sharma,Akintunde Emiola
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-45068-7
摘要
Abstract Bacteria use a variety of defense systems to protect themselves from phage infection. In turn, phages have evolved diverse counter-defense measures to overcome host defenses. Here, we use protein structural similarity and gene co-occurrence analyses to screen >66 million viral protein sequences and >330,000 metagenome-assembled genomes for the identification of anti-phage and counter-defense systems. We predict structures for ~300,000 proteins and perform large-scale, pairwise comparison to known anti-CRISPR (Acr) and anti-phage proteins to identify structural homologs that otherwise may not be uncovered using primary sequence search. This way, we identify a Bacteroidota phage Acr protein that inhibits Cas12a, and an Akkermansia muciniphila anti-phage defense protein, termed BxaP. Gene bxaP is found in loci encoding Bacteriophage Exclusion (BREX) and restriction-modification defense systems, but confers immunity independently. Our work highlights the advantage of combining protein structural features and gene co-localization information in studying host-phage interactions.
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